{"id":4571,"date":"2005-06-29T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T16:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4571.html"},"modified":"2005-06-29T12:16:27","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T16:16:27","slug":"im-sure-the-senate-wont-just-pooh-pooh-a-judicial-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/im-sure-the-senate-wont-just-pooh-pooh-a-judicial-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m sure the Senate won&#8217;t just pooh-pooh a judicial nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/50_139\/hoh\/9866-1.html\">this<\/a> was funny.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist] began his analogy routine earlier in the day with a speech at the Heritage Foundation, saying, &#8220;Some might compare the filibuster to constipation; the cloture vote to a colonoscopy; and confirmation to, well, you get the point.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have their guesses [about what confirmation should be compared to]. One Senate Democratic aide who couldn&#8217;t wait to take a dump on Frist&#8217;s analogy said, &#8220;We&#8217;re glad Dr. Frist agrees with us that George Bush should not send a crappy nominee.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Score one for the Democratic Message Machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was funny. [Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist] began his analogy routine earlier in the day with a speech at the Heritage Foundation, saying, &#8220;Some might compare the filibuster to constipation; the cloture vote to a colonoscopy; and confirmation to, well, you get the point.&#8221; [&#8230;] Democrats have their guesses [about what confirmation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}